Combined mail box, house number, knocker, and light therefor



IE7 VE@ 1231.1? Edward f Knapp E. J. KNAPP COMBINED MAIL BOX, HOUSE NUMBER, KNOCKER, AND LIGHT THEREFOR Filed Oct. 28, 1926 April 29, 1930.

Patented Apr. 29, 1930 i y UNITED STATES .PATENT AOFIFICli-" EDWARD J. KNAPP, or LA GRANGE, ILLTNors COMBINED MAIL BOX, HOUSE NUMBER, KNOCKER, AND LIGHT THEREFOR Application filed October 28, 1926. Serial No. 144,807. i

This invention relates to mail-boxes in gention there is shown a door 1 of a building eral and `more particularly to a combined which has secured on the exterior thereof a mail-box, house or apartment number, knock plate 2. rihe plate 2 is provided with an or and light therefor, and it is an object of this elongated aperture 3 having a central eninvention to provide a mail-box having on larged part Bwhioh is aligned with a diago. 55 the exterior thereof a number and an illuminal downwardly sloping aperture 4c extendin nating means therefor which lights up the through said door. The plate 2 is aperture number, the entrance to the mail-box, and the to receive a horizontal conduit 5 which exknocker. o i tends through the door 1. A socket 6 is se- The postman or anyone desiring to deliver cured to the outer end of the conduit 5 and is 60 mail or circulars and the like to a certain ad- A)rovided on its inner end with a mounting 7 dress Wants first of all to locate the number for holding an outwardly extending downof the house or apartment and at the same Wardly deflecting reliector 8. A lamp bulb time he wants to find the mail-box so that he 9 is fitted within the socket 6 and is within the therein. He frequently must locate both ythe to close the aperture 3 and is hinged to the house or apartment number and the mail-box plate 2 at the Lipper edge of said aperture. A in a, hail-Way which i5 no1-)Daily (lark, arid Suitable llGuSe Dumber ll iS pIOVldeCl O11 the upon locating said number and mail-box he door 10 on the outside thereof and is adapt 2o mist Signal the occupants of the domicile. ed to be illuminated by the bulb Qand reflec- 70 It is accordinglyv an important obj ect of this OT S tllGlGOl. A Suitable bOX 12 may be Seinvention to provide a construction whereby y cured to the inner side of the wall l beneath both the house or apartment number and the the inner end of the aperture 4 to receive entrance to the mailbox are lighted up by a therein the mail OI the like Which Slides in onvenient light. through said aperture. 75

It is also an important object of this inven- A knocker 13 is mounted on the plate 2 and tion to provide a construction of the above hinged tlel'e'O OD either Sido 0f the apertype having means convenient thereto for sigture 3. A raised lug 14 is provided on the maling the occupants of the domicile. plate 2 beneath the aperture. 3 for engagement invention will be apparent from the disolo- The Slot 3 has an enlarged part 3 vso that eures in the specification and accompanying papers 0r the like may be rolled and passed drawings, through the larger part of the slot and yet the The invention in a preferred form is illusvSlVOt iS i105 large lOugll t0 PBHDll a, PGISOH trat-,ed in the drawings and hereinafter more t0 lTlSel? lllS ilLHCl and SllOllld lle d0 S0 lle Cil/I1- Si fully described, not reach the mail matter in box 12. On the drawings; .In the foregoing construction there is pro-A Figure 1 represents a front elevational View VlClSCl 2p Dent and offlCloIlt mail-box and knockof a door having a device therein embodying el WlllCll may be readl located simultan 4c ibis invention, neously with the inding o the house or apart- 9o Figure 2 is an enlarged detail View with ment Humber by the POSIIMII It Will be apparts omitted of Figure 1. parent that the foregoing device may be used Figure 3 is a fragmentary. enlarged detail in the wall of the building instead of the door view taken at the line III-, III ofFigure 1 without departing from the spirit of this showing the mail-box door in open position. invention. 95

Figure 4l is a plan fragment of the back i am aware that many changes may be made plate containing the slot through which mail and numerous details of construction may be is inserted. varied through a wide range without depart- As shown on the drawings: ing from the principles of this invention, andl 15 :nay deposit said mail or circulars and the like reflector 8. A rectangular door 1() is adapted 65 C3 Other and further important obJects of this by the knocker 13. 80 y In the illustrated embodiment of this inven- I therefore do not purpose limiting the pat- 100"Y ent granted hereon otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention In a device of the class described, a plateV adapted for securement to a lWall having an opening therethrough, said plate having a slot therethrough for registering With the opening in the vvall7 a door hinged to Said plate to close the said-slot,l indicia on said door, a knocker hinged to said plate, an integral boss on said plate to receive the impact of said knoeler, and means on said plate for illuminating said knocker and said door and for illuminating said slot when the door is raised to the open position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sul)-V seribed my name.

EDWARD` J. KNAPP. 

